Jun. 11th, 2007

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Will be screen-capping what I can when these movies are on. I think it's important to know our history in film, especially those who were previously banned and censored because of a close-minded society.

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Exit Smiling is perhaps the only film that ever fully utilized the comic genius of the incomparable Beatrice Lillie. The star is cast as the wardrobe lady of a touring theatrical company. She is introduced to the audience via subtitle as "Violet, the drudge of the troupe...Who also plays parts like 'Nothing' in Much Ado About Nothing." Though bogged down in a treacly plot concerning fugitive-from-justice Jimmy Marsh (Jack Pickford), Lillie manages to rise above the material with her first-rate clowning. Her particular highlight is an extended routine involving a string of pearls (a Lillie "standard" that she'd use time and again on stage). Alas, after the box-office failure of Exit Smiling, Bea Lillie would be confined to secondary film roles, often as not far beneath her talents.

In Algie the Miner, a 1912 one-reeler from pioneer producer Alice Guy-Blaché, a young man (Billy Quirk doing something of a limp-wristed "nance" routine) is obliged to prove machismo to his prospective father-in-law. Off to the West he goes, learning first that one does not thank gunslingers by kissing them.

Jun. 1st, 2007

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I have a mass of icons I've done for the silver screen, hope you enjoy them. Feel free to use.